This is at best shady and more directly a pure ripoff of his workers.. this apparently isn't that rare.. I found last night that my firend, a bartender, is having to pay her employer 10% of her take (including her pay if the day is that slow) for the "honor" of working at a local Grandview tavern.   It is first of...more

"Time will heal the economy, and there are limits on what the Fed can do to boost it." is exactly correct.. that should have been the realization before we spent 2 Trillion going on 3 to "solve" the issue.. not to mention the largely wasted effort on the "banking bailout".. the net result that instead of the banks bein...more

Stunning what folk will do to avoid simply reducing their spending to less than or equal to their incomes. I'm amused by all the hoops, smoke and mirrors, or whatever one calls this stuff..

This is the first fairly balanced article I can recall reading on MSN.. Someone must have let it slip through.. and to those of you who actually took the time to post, RIGHT ON.. You fellows are helping to fill in the "facts" of the ludicrous expenditures of this thing we call our government.. Our polititians have abso...more

I see the Standard and Poor's rating agency has re-stated my position from my earlier post.. they stated in a release today the "4 Trillion in cuts would only be neutral" and that "downgrading is inevitable if the debt REDUCTION issue is not addressed" (paraphrased and condensed slightly) In other words THE EVIL REPUBL...more

This is a patently ridiculous article.. the market didn't "crash" nearly 200 pts today because of the "impending debt crisis" anymore than it went up 150 points the other day because of the "impending debt crisis"...  I love the egocentrism of news groups who think THEIR HEADLINES are what move markets.    First, ...more